Category: Reviews

  • Kill All Wizards by Jedediah Berry – Book Review

    Kill All Wizards by Jedediah Berry – Book Review

    Quick Synopsis – We could think of nothing but the barbarian. He had come here, surely, to murder or marry someone, to exact revenge, or to say or do something very scandalous. We could hardly wait to see which it was. We hoped it would be all of them. The barbarian traveled far to consult…

  • The Reimagining of Thornwood House by Jaleigh Johnson – Book Review

    The Reimagining of Thornwood House by Jaleigh Johnson – Book Review

    Quick Synopsis – Evelyn Sharpe is accustomed to dealing with natural disasters as a land witch, but she longs for a life with a little less danger for her and her adopted daughter, Ruby. So, when the opportunity to take over as Caretaker of Thornwood House—a sentient home that acts as the magical heart of…

  • The Children by Melissa Albert – Book Review

    The Children by Melissa Albert – Book Review

    Quick Synopsis – Guinevere Sharpe has two childhoods. In one, she and her brother, Ennis, live in the wooded shadow of their family’s isolated Vermont farmhouse; in the other, the pages of their mother’s world-famous Ninth City books, where their magical adventures have made them household names. In reality, Guinevere’s childhood isn’t the enchanted idyll…

  • Hopeless Necromantic by Shiloh Briar – Book Review

    Hopeless Necromantic by Shiloh Briar – Book Review

    Quick Synopsis – When new recruit Helspira takes on the doomed mission that no other soldier wants, life—and death—start to get a little complicated. Helspira must play escort to Sikras—a frustratingly handsome necromancer with the power to raise the dead—as he attempts a mission that he’s failed twice before; stopping an undead army at the…